Greetings, my name is David Colarusso. I'm the co-director of Suffolk University Law School's Legal Innovation & Technology (LIT) Lab. With one foot in law and the other in tech, I really want the open web to thrive. So I created a bot (@icymilaw.org) and this site to help folks discover great law-themed content while showing off what one can do with sufficiently open protocols. Note, the number of fire emoji represent how many standard deviations more popular a link is than the average link observed in its category.
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News-like Links
A collection of links shared recently¹ by legal-type folks² with URLs that look like they point to news articles,³ sorted by popularity.
- Lindsey Halligan Admits Grand Jury Never Saw Final Comey Indictment 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Grand jurors have to vote on indictments to approve them, but a prosecutor told the judge in the case that only the foreperson formally approved the second charging document, a move that could…
- Lawrence Summers to Stop Teaching at Harvard While It Investigates His Epstein Ties 🔥🔥🔥
- Long a coveted voice, Larry Summers withdraws from a half-dozen groups amid Epstein ties. Harvard’s not among them. - The Boston Globe 🔥Former Harvard president Larry Summers is no longer affiliated with a series of centers and think tanks with which he’s long been involved, officials confirmed Tuesday.
- Essay | How to Turn the Bureaucratic Grind of Life Into a Party 🔥We all feel it: the growing stream of administrative tasks sapping our time, spirits and social lives. Admin Night represents a tiny, nerdy resistance.
- 3 massive changes you'll see as the climate careens toward tipping points 🔥Scientists are increasingly concerned that the planet is headed for massive, irreversible changes due to global warming. In some cases, those changes have already begun.
Blog-like Links
A collection of links shared recently⁴ by legal-type folks⁵ with URLs that look like they point to blogs/newsletters,⁶ sorted by popularity.
- Breaking: Judge Boasberg says "justice requires" him to continue contempt inquiry into Trump admin 🔥🔥🔥“I certainly intend to find out what happened on that day,” Boasberg said of the March 15 Alien Enemies Act flights. He plans to begin hearings on Dec. 1.
- NEWS: White House Refuses to Say Whether the Epstein Files Bill has been Received as Delays Mount 🔥The White House has called a lid this evening on the press, and has yet to say anything regarding the Epstein files bill ...
- How to Negotiate with Russia 🔥Account for history, law, and above all Ukraine ...
- Acquired Tastes: A Call for Submissions For younger writers, ages 15-21 ...
- Thinking about... | Timothy Snyder | Substack Opening the future by understanding the past. Click to read "Thinking about...", by Timothy Snyder, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
AI & The Law Links
A collection of links shared recently⁷ on Bluesky that look like they talk about AI & the law,⁸ sorted by popularity.
- What Big Tech Doesn't Want You to Know About AI 🔥🔥🔥🔥Robert Reich ...
- Trump administration drafts an executive order regulating state AI laws 🔥🔥The draft executive order, according to a person familiar with the matter, would try to block states from enacting their own laws regulating AI.
- Anticompetitive Acquiescence in AI Content Licensing - ProMarket† 🔥Large AI firms like OpenAI and Amazon are licensing content to train their models that they might otherwise have been able to access for free under the fair use doctrine. Mark A. Lemley and Jacob Noti...
- Trump Takes Aim at State AI Laws in Draft Executive Order 🔥The draft order, obtained by WIRED, instructs the US Justice Department to sue states that pass laws regulating AI.
- Give Us Your Face or Lose Your Account: AI Age Verification Is Here, and Experts Are Worried† From Spotify to YouTube, platforms now demand biometric proof of age. Experts warn that you could lose access—and your privacy—if the algorithms get it wrong.
Law Review-like Links
A collection of links shared recently⁹ on Bluesky that look like they point to papers in law journals or the like,¹⁰ sorted by popularity.
- Fabricating the Crime of Undocumented Presence† 🔥In 2025, the Trump Administration’s Office of Legal Counsel declared that it is a federal crime simply to be an undocumented immigrant. But Congress has enac ...
- Parody Defendants are Finding Success Post-Jack Daniel's 🔥The Supreme Court's 2023 decision in Jack Daniel's v. VIP Products was widely perceived to be a win for trademark owners and a loss for parodists, but recent ca ...
- Amicus Brief of Prof. Andrew Kent, WMM v. Trump (5th Cir. 2025) (en banc)† This amicus brief draws on my research on the original meaning of the several parts of the the Alien Enemies Act. See Andrew Kent, The Alien Enemies Ac ...
- Religious Antiliberalism and the First Amendment† An emerging intellectual and ideological critique of liberalism is coinciding with a significant transformation of the American law of church and state. Contemp ...
- How Design Patent Law Lost Its Shape† Under U.S. law, patents are available for “any new, original and ornamental design for an article of manufacture.” Today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (
AI Paper-like Links
A collection of links shared recently¹¹ on Bluesky that look like they point to papers on AI,¹² sorted by popularity. Wondering why this section is on a site about the law? Well, I teach a course on AI & the Law, and it turns out that understanding this stuff is super important to figuring out what the law might have to say. So, I figured since I was sharing lists, I might as well share this one too.
- Auditing Google's AI Overviews and Featured Snippets: A Case Study on Baby Care and Pregnancy 🔥🔥🔥Google Search increasingly surfaces AI-generated content through features like AI Overviews (AIO) and Featured Snippets (FS), which users frequently rely on despite having no control over their presen...
- DecNefLab: A Modular and Interpretable Simulation Framework for Decoded Neurofeedback 🔥🔥
- Does AI-Assisted Coding Deliver? A Difference-in-Differences Study of Cursor's Impact on Software Projects† 🔥Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the promise to revolutionize the field of software engineering. Among other things, LLM agents are rapidly gaining momentum in their application to softw...
- PeatDepth-ML: A Global Map of Peat Depth Predicted using Machine Learning† 🔥Abstract. Peatlands are major carbon stores that are sensitive to climate change and increasingly affected by human activity. Accurate assessment of carbon stocks and modelling of peatland responses t...
- Algorithms Trained on Normal Chest X-rays Can Predict Health Insurance Types† 🔥ArXiv link for Algorithms Trained on Normal Chest X-rays Can Predict Health Insurance Types ...
The High Score
The 20 accounts most reposted by @icymilaw.org over the past week¹³ (the list below is updated every Sunday). High Score, get it? One Score = 20, as in, "four score and seven years ago." ;)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- Sheryl Weikal, still saying Free Palestine (@leftistlawyer.com)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Insubordinate Piggy Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sam Brunson (@smbrnsn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden (@sandraduffy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
- Dan Kennedy (@dankennedy.net) (promoted)
- Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brandi Buchman (@brandibuchman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 (@chanda.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Elizabeth Joh (@elizabethjoh.bsky.social) (relegated)
- post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brad Heath (@bradheath.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
† This link was also in yesterday's digest. ¹ Approx. 1 day lookback. ² Attorneys, law profs, et al. ³ News-like links (law) ⁴ Supra note 1. ⁵ Supra note 2. ⁶ Blog-like links (law) ⁷ Approx. 3.5 days lookback. ⁸ AI & the Law ⁹ Approx. 1 week lookback. ¹⁰ Law Review-like ¹¹ Supra note 9. ¹² AI Papers et al. ¹³ High Score
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